Tonight, we decided to recreate Skinny Taste's dirty brown rice with shrimp recipe, found here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/02/dirty-brown-rice-with-shrimp.html.
Dirty rice is a traditional NOLA dish, typically made with brown beef, rice and peppers.
Per usual we took our own spin on the dish. We subbed quinoa for the rice which in hindsight we would have done a little differently. The hamburg to quinoa ratio was 98:1.
Here's how we did it:
-1/2 cup quinoa and 1 cup of water. We added salt, paprika, thyme, chicken bouillon, and a bay leaf to the water.
-Bring quinoa to a boil, then simmer and cover on low for 10 minutes or until the water evaporates.
-Simultaneously, in another pan, saute garlic, onion, green pepper and scallions in oil for about 5 minutes. Then add in a pound or so of hamburg and your spices. We used: salt and pepper, thyme, paprika, cayenne pepper and another bay leaf. Brown up the 'burg and then the best part: add a poundish of peeled shrimp. Once the shrimp are cooked, mix everything and add the quinoa. Then serve and eat.
Things we'd do differently:
We would either increase the quinoa to meat ratio or skip quinoa an use rice or even try spaghetti squash. Also add more veggies such as red pepper. The recipe did call for celery but we don't care for celery so we didn't add it.
We only used a quarter teaspoon of cayenne but would use more to increase the kick.
We would also add garlic powder.
This would be a good dish to feed a crowd as it makes a lot. Very easy to clean up besides the quinoa glitter.
Until next week!
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